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Here you’ll find some of our favorite organizing and houseware
related websites. Cloud
9’s primary goal is to creatively reuse what you already have
to transform your spaces but sometimes you want that certain something
to complete your home or office.
Our mission is to make it easier for you to be a thoughtful
shopper by helping you support local businesses, secondhand businesses,
eco businesses, and online retailers without compromising your
needs. This list is just
a sampling from the extensive database of resources that you get
access to as a Cloud 9 client.
If you know of a resource that fits here email
us!
Conscious Consuming
Charitable Online Shopping
Local Organizing Products
Eco Organizing Products
Online Organizing Products
Local Houseware Products
Eco Houseware Products
Online Houseware Products
Recycling
Cloud 9’s Favorite Blogs
CONSCIOUS CONSUMING
These sites help you choose retailers that are committed to solid
social, environmental, and labor practices.
Conscious
Consumer Marketplace
Buy Blue
CHARITABLE ONLINE SHOPPING
When you buy things from major online retailers through these
search engines, they donate to charity with each purchase you
make!
Benevolink
Buy
for Good
Give
and Shop
ORGANIZING PRODUCTS
NOTE: It’s tempting to run out and get lots of organizing
bins, containers etc. to “fix” your organizing problems.
That’s the LAST step of organizing, after you’ve assessed
the issues and come up with a sustainable plan – otherwise
you will waste time, money and resources.
Local Organizing Products
City
Housewares (Brookline & Cambridge)
Economy
Hardware (Brookline, Allston, Boston, Cambridge)
Tags
Hardware (Cambridge)
The
Container Store (Chestnut Hill)
Eco Organizing Products
Green
Earth Office Supply
Sustainable
Group
The
Green Office
Online Organizing
Products
The following sites offer a huge selection of standard organizing
supplies; there are a handful of sites that focus on snazzier
products with an eye for aesthetic (these are noted by ‘design’).
Clutter
Free Kids
Creative
Spaces
Online
Organizing
Organize.com
Organize
It
Russell
and Hazel - design
See
Jane Work -
design
Space
Savers
Stacks
and Stacks
The
Macbeth Collection –
design
The Shelving
Store
Three
by Three –
design
HOUSEWARE PRODUCTS
Local Houseware Products
Mostly secondhand suppliers unless noted otherwise.
List
of Used Furniture Dealers in Massachusetts
List
of Boston Area Thrift Shops
Building
Materials Resource Center
Craigslist
- fantastic
website for buying and selling local stuff!
Cambridge
Antique Market - don’t let the word ‘antiques’
scare you. five floors of dealers and goodies!
Company
C (Concord & Online) - new vibrant rugs, bedding
& pillows
Freecycle
- website for people to post things that they are giving away
locally
Furnature
(Watertown) - new organic, toxin-free furniture
Garage
Sale Boston (South End) - high-end secondhand furniture
Ikea
(Stoughton) – though not perfect, Ikea IS making
concerted efforts to be a responsible company and they have affordable
and fun housewares!
Organic
Furniture Cellar (Central Square) - reasonably priced
vintage furniture
Massachusetts
Antiques Cooperative (Waltham) - another multi-dealer
venue for finding treasures
Pure
Home Center (Holliston) - eco paints by AFM and eco
building materials. Sherwin Williams & Benjamin Moore also
sell low chemical paints which you can get at your local hardware
store.
Reside
(Cambridge) - pricey but great mid-century modern
pieces
Zimman’s
Fabrics (Lynn) – amazing warehouse of new fabrics
Local Eco Services
Environmentally
Safe Cleaning - green house cleaning
Lilys
Home Services - green carpet & upholstery cleaning
Local Fine Art and
Craft
Boston
Open Studios – lists all the artists open studios
in the Boston area
Mass
Art Holiday & Spring Art Sales – student
and alumni art for sale
Magpie
(Somerville) – hip goods by indie artists and
artisans
School
of the Museum of Fine Arts Annual December Sale –
student and alumni art for sale
Eco Houseware Products
Each source below sells a wide array of eco home products unless
noted otherwise.
2Modern
- modern design products
Branch
Home - modern design products
Building
for Health
Co-op
America’s Green Pages - great resource for
finding green retailers and services
Ecomall
Environmental
Home Center
Flor
- eco carpet tiles
Greener
Lifestyles
Green
Home
Green
Sage
Harmony
Art Organic Design - organic cotton fabrics
Mod
Green Pod - organic cotton fabrics
Nest
– eco stuff for kids
Viva
Terra - high-end eco housewares
Online Houseware Products
Bemz
- fun slipcovers for Ikea furniture
Design
Public - small company that focuses on fresh new
design
Etsy
- handmade objects for home
Garnet
Hill - vibrant bedding & rugs
Repro
Depot Fabrics – fantastic, affordable vintage
inspired fabrics
Stretch
& Cover – slipcovers
Velocity
Art & Design - Seattle based online source for
modern living housewares
We
Heart Prints - affordable prints by independent artists
RECYCLING RESOURCES
Earth
911 - the best place to find out how and where to
recycle different products
Recycle
for Breast Cancer
LaLa CD
Trading
Paperback
Swap
Swap
Thing
Stop
Your Junk Mail
FAVORITE BLOGS
Apartment Therapy
Decor8
Design
Sponge
Ideal
Bite
Fabulously
Green
Ikea
Hacker
Treehugger
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